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Examples of deckhand
deckhand
His first and most memorable race was in the early 1980s when he was a deckhand.
From the courier-journal.com
Volunteer deckhand Dave Mardon pulls in a rope to assist in securing the ship.
From the timesunion.com
Smoke billows from a pipe smoked by volunteer deckhand Timothy Benner on the ship.
From the timesunion.com
The boat's deckhand, Chris Fox, has worked aboard the New Salmon Queen for a year.
From the sacbee.com
She tells one stunned deckhand that in her apartment she stores books in her stove.
From the thenewstribune.com
His deckhand, also his nephew, sorted the shrimp by size and put them on ice.
From the online.wsj.com
Deckhand Tommy Kelly, 36, from rural Sugar Tree, Tenn., feels safer that way.
From the time.com
A deckhand works on a barge along the Mississippi River in Sauget, Illinois.
From the guardian.co.uk
Mr. Newton, 31, spent nine years as a deckhand before he worked himself up to captain.
From the post-gazette.com
- A member of a ship's crew who performs manual labor
- Also 'aftman' or 'sternman'. The person responsible for emptying, baiting, stacking, and dropping traps as well as just about everything else that needs to get done except hauling traps and piloting the boat. A busy person.
- The "gofer" on a fishing vessel. Duties include just about anything that may need to be done on a boat. Usually paid a percentage of the boat's profits.
- Seaman who works on the deck of a ship and remains in the wheelhouse attending to the orders of the duty officers during navigation and manoeuvring.
